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Product category: Extrusion lines for laminating and coating

dsX flex-pack™ Extrusion Coating Line

The new dsX flex-pack™ extrusion coating line from Davis-Standard provides converters and package printers with a high-value, competitively-priced system that will give them distinct advantages when seeking to expand sales in the price-sensitive global flexible packaging market.

This pre-engineered line can be delivered quickly – in as little as six months -- and provides customers with all the capabilities and flexibility needed to ramp up and compete effectively for a variety of rapidly emerging application opportunities including salted snack and noodle bags, toothpaste tubes, sachet packs, personal care products, condiment packs and stand-up pouches. Designed and engineered to provide superior value to comparably priced systems, lines are available in two versions to accommodate almost any plant.

Cast Film & Sheet Extusion Systems

Davis-Standard offers a broad range of cast film capabilities with various levels of sophistication and sizes to meet your process requirements. Process lines are supplied using an integrated control solution tying subcomponents together for ease of operation. Complete lines in standard or custom form are available, encompassing resin supply to automatic finished roll removal.

Davis-Standard sheet systems are globally recognized for reliability, accuracy, high outputs, and processing efficiency. We manufacture high quality equipment for foam, flexible and rigid sheet extrusion, and single and multi-layer co-extrusion applications up to nine layers.

Davis-Standard offers one source for all of your sheet extrusion needs, including controls, custom feedscrews, melt pumps, payoffs and winders. We also offer one of the industry’s most versatile and cost-effective roll stand systems, the XP Express®, designed for nearly every sheet and packaging application. We will work with you at every stage of the process, from testing at one of our in-house labs, to installation and start-up on your plant floor.

Davis-Standard is also leading the way in green technology with machines that reduce scrap and support energy efficiency. This includes highly-efficient motors and barrel heaters, gearless extruders, high-efficiency screw designs, inline reclaiming of skeletal scrap and edge trim materials, power reducing primer dryer designs, scrapless winders, and much more. Our new markets’ expertise includes equipment for processing bioresins such as PLA or PHA for flexible and rigid packaging applications; down gauging of sheet products; technology for processing fluoropolymers and other resins used in solar panel encapsulation; and equipment used in battery component manufacturing.

Blown Film Extrusion Systems

Davis-Standard blown film technology is engineered to support wide, high-speed blown film processes. We have proven components that enable us to supply complete systems or upgrade existing machines. Our dies are available to 2500mm diameter with 7 layers, giving you the ability to make unique products. Our leading air cooling technology ensures the highest return on output for capital dollar spent, and our full range of surface and turret winders provide the best rolls and quality of flat film. Our world-leading extrusion technology provides versatility and performance for lowest melt temperatures and high homogenization.

Davis-Standard's complete process knowledge from hopper to winder gives us the ability to support customers through every interrelated facet of blown film extrusion. Regardless if the line is for high-speed can liners, a custom technical coextruded film, laminating films, barrier film, or high output agricultural film, we have the technology, designs and equipment to meet your needs.

Pipe Profile & Tubing Extrusion Systems

At Davis-Standard, whether you are looking for a single extruder or a complete extrusion system, our machinery is engineered to help you manufacture tight tolerance products in practically any thermoplastic material, and with minimal downtime. Rugged, reliable and virtually indestructible, our extruders are available in a range of L/D ratios in both air-cooled and water-cooled variants. Our single screw workhorses include: the compact vertical or horizontal HPE extruder, the cost-effective Super Blue® or Euro Blue® with quick delivery for faster start up opportunities, the tried-and-true economical Mark Series, and the top-of-the-line Thermatic®. Our twin screw offerings include the classic Gemini® Conical (GC) and Gemini® Parallel (GP) extruders.

Along with these industry-standard machines, Davis-Standard is continually improving on its green technology offerings with machines that support energy efficiency. This equipment offers greater energy savings, reduced scrap, and improved processing for extrusion operations, including high-efficient motors, barrel heaters, gearless extruders, and much more. The Thermatic® GF groove feed extruder is a fully engineered solution for high output applications and low melt temperatures for the ability to process at higher line speeds.

The high-performance, energy-efficient Thermatic® HS high speed extruder produces high levels of torque at low operating speeds. The new and efficient MEDD (Medical Extruder Direct Drive) extruder has a small footprint and performance features for coextrusion and multi-layer applications, and its direct drive motor contains no gear case or oils – keeps cleanrooms clean.

Whether your product is corrugated or smooth wall pipe, industrial or medical profiles, or industrial or medical tubing, we have the ability and experience to design and manufacture extruders and extrusion systems to meet your exacting requirements.

Feedscrew Technology

Davis-Standard feedscrews are designed and manufactured in-house by top extrusion process engineers/specialists who are available to assist and ensure top productivity and mixing for your unique application. Our feedscrews are available in a range of designs and finishes for every extrusion process and offer consistently higher output rates and improved process stability to maximize production.

Extrusion Coating Systems

Davis-Standard extrusion coating systems offer you the best technological solutions for your extrusion coating and laminating needs. Our global product offerings combine the best designs and practices to provide the optimum customer solutions.

Among the various benefits we provide are superior melt quality to ensure that adhesion, gauge uniformity, high production levels, and maintainable end product performance. Advanced control systems with APC(Automatic Profile Control) ensures the quality of the end product is maintained and extrudate is uniform in both machine direction and cross machine direction for less waste. Systems are available for flexible packaging, paper and board coating and laminating, fabric coating, and nonwovens coating.

Our series of extrusion coating product platforms lead the industry. The dsX flex-pack™ is engineered for customers wishing to enter new markets or grow their business with a modest investment. The DS450 offers great output and automation, and the DS750 offers the fastest line speeds and most options for large-scale production applications. Our sub-components seamlessly integrate into a process line to allow for custom configurations, including various levels of unwinding and winding equipment, to address both the product being run and budget.

Winder Technology

Davis-Standard winders feature versatile designs with a wide range of winding methods to product consistent winding of top quality rolls for minimum waste and maximum production of a wide range of web products. Our patented roll changing systems eliminate waste at the start and finishedroll sets. Davis-Standard integrated core and finished roll handling maximizes productivity off of production lines.

Rubber Extrusion Systems

Davis-Standard rubber extruders offer application-specific capabilities that supply solutions for applications from medical silicone to automotive seals to custom applications. Available with 1 1/2-inch (38 mm) to 10-inch (254mm) barrel diameters and L/D ratios up to 20:1, Davis-Standard manufactures both single screw and coextrusion systems available with a range of elastomer extruders: multipurpose, hot and cold feed, silicone, vacuum vented, pin barrel, smooth barrel and custom designs, as well as energy-saving gear extruders.

Other environmental-friendly and improved-processing technology include: higher output screw designs which offer more throughput for the same horsepower, efficient drive/motor systems, efficient closed loop temperature control systems, and use of VOC-compliant paints.

Turn-key extrusion systems offer single source responsibility, offering easier installations. Davis-Standard also supplies extrusion heads, custom feedscrew designs, curing systems, laboratory and downstream equipment, and integrated process control systems, along with a technical center which offers decades of empirical trial data and the ability to run customer compounds including straining and precision metering.

Davis-Standard will work with you at every stage of the process, from product testing in our in-house labs, to installation and start-up on your plant floor. Our custom-engineered systems provide optimization for specific applications to offer unique customer solutions. We have the experience to supply a scrap to pellet solution for you with equipment for material size reduction, storage and feeding, filtration, and pellet production.

Pelletizing Technology

Davis-Standard manufactures and supplies all of the component products and systems needed to produce high-quality pellets. Our pelletizer technology, flexible system layouts, precision die plates, precise control and equipment reliability allow excellent pellet uniformity and high output while processing a broad viscosity range of all types of products. Our extrusion pelletizing equipment can also easily produce a wide variety of pellet size ranges generally with simple selection of the proper die plate orifice hole and knife assembly speed.

Whether lab scale, small production, intermediate size or very large commodity production lines, Davis-Standard provides new equipment, upgrades, and debottlenecking to meet your processing needs with our efficient, reliable and easy to use equipment technology.

Control System Technology

Davis-Standard offers a full line of control systems to accommodate a range of budgets and process parameters. From discrete control to complete supervisory control, we offer some of the industry’s most efficient control solutions.

All Davis-Standard control systems are custom engineered in-house to ensure system applicability and reliability. We design and manufacture custom drives and controls, production line motor drives, extrusion and process temperature, pressure and gauging controls. The company also manufactures patented dual thermocouple and advanced touchscreen control systems capable of a variety of functions.

Compounding Extrusion Systems

Davis-Standard manufactures single screw compounding systems for use in polymer compounding applications. Systems are custom-engineered to satisfy specific application and customer requirements. Designs are engineered based on several parameters, including solids feeding, compression and melting, mixing, devolatization, decompression and pelletizing. Extruders are available with high torque air or water-cooled options, in both cold feed and hot feed designs.

Barrel Technology

Davis-Standard's offers durable and advanced barrel technology. We manufacture one piece barrels ranging in bore size from 1 to 20 inches (25 to 500mm) in diameter and up to 185 inches (4,700mm) long. Two piece barrels are available in lengths ranging from 185 to 295 inches (4,700 to 7,500mm).

Our alloys provide dramatically enhanced abrasion and corrosion resistance to barrels operating under severe conditions, especially those using filled materials including glass, titanium, dioxide, quartz, talc, mineral oxides and others. We can manufacture virtually any barrel including vented, groove-feed, nitrided, jacketed, and re-sleeved. New barrels for plastics and rubber applications are designed to last four to five times longer than equivalent nitrided products.

About us

Company details

Davis-Standard is a recognized global leader in high-performance converting and extrusion systems. Davis-Standard’s capabilities go far beyond equipment. They extend to professional design engineers, laboratory personnel, training experts, a talented commercial force, hands-on field engineers and aftermarket parts and service specialists, who work together to support customers from the very first inquiry, to the commissioning and final acceptance of the project, and beyond.

Davis-Standard converting and extrusion systems are a key component of the value chain within several key markets, such as packaging, construction, healthcare, agriculture, automotive, food and beverage, tape and label, and more.

Davis-Standard’s mission is to supply technologically-advanced solutions to the global polymer and rubber processing industries, providing exceptional value for customers. The company offers the most complete range of extrusion and converting systems and technology in Blow Molding, Blown and Cast Film, Elastomer, Extrusion Coating, Liquid Coating and Lamination, Medical Tubing, Pelletizing and Recycling, Pipe, Profile and Tubing, Sheet and Foam, Specialty including Laboratory Equipment and Fiber, Winding and Unwinding and Wire and Cable.

With three manufacturing facilities and R&D centers in the United States; subsidiaries with facilities in China, Germany, and the United Kingdom; sales representative offices in France, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Russia; and a network of sales agents in almost every major region, Davis-Standard is truly “The Global Advantage.”